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No matter how many mistakes you've made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in… — Joel Osteen
It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you. — Jim Rohn
The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more… — Alan Watts
The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can… — J C Ryle
We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how… — Watchman Nee
It's the only way that I see that it can be done," McCain said. "Obviously, it has failed in the past, but I also notice… — John McCain
A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just… — Aberjhani
Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that… — Rajneesh
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the… — Phyllis McGinley
The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their… — Isak Dinesen
It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past. — William H. Hastie
The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked… — Adrienne Rich
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. — Red Auerbach
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of… — Gavin Rossdale
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. — Elizabeth Taylor
There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in… — Dalai Lama
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than… — Jimmy Carter
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we… — Jimmy Carter
I can't really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of… — Unknown Author
Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future. — Alan Cohen

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